see the faults – I’m not getting all CountZero about it. But I honestly don’t see texting as a bad point – I think the texting on it is really good.
Cooeee!
Agree, it ain’t perfect, but it’s more perfect than what I had before; XDA Mini, N95, iPhone 3G, (and how sloooooowwww that seems now), ans subsequent versions will just get betterer. Others obviously agree. The call thing’s weird, I get calls at work, which is a shonky environment, all steel walls n’stuff, and don’t have any issues, and calls I make at home are, generally fine, (there’s a mast around eighty, ninety feet from where I’m writing this), but one particular mate often cuts out when I make extended calls to him. Not sure, but I think it’s at his end, he lives out in the country where signal strength is a bit iffy. TBH, the phone is secondary, I make few calls, so connection generally isn’t an issue. Texting is brilliant, although sometimes word suggestions can be a bit…odd. Why does it capitalise White, when what I want is white? It used to capitalise reading, too, though why Reading should be so important is quite beyond me…
Thing is though, the iPhone does pretty much everything a pocket computer should do, and more, and certainly does things I never even imagined a phone could possibly do even five years ago. When I got my first iphone, there were no Android phones; why would I be interested in one now? I have too much invested in the apps I have, and some of those have no Android equivalent. The screen mount for using Copilot in the car wouldn’t fit any other phone, so again, why change now? Having the whole of England on the damn thing in 1:50k OS mapping is, something I barely imagined would be possible. Add on stuff like barcode readers, ebook readers, even a spirit level, and a really excellent still and video camera, plus an excellent ecosystem of add-on’s, I just love what the damn thing can do, and I make no apologies for being enthusiastic about such a whizzy bit of kit. Just a gadget geek, really, and always have been.